Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District Boundary Increase and ...The Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District...

NORTH CAROLINA STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICEOffice of Archives and HistoryDepartment of Cultural Resources

NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES

Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District Boundary Increaseand Additional Documentation

Chapel Hill, Orange County, OR1748, Listed 1/30/2008Nomination by Ruth M. LittlePhotographs by Ruth M. Little and Robert Stipe, 2005 and 2006

101 Pine Lane

503 Laurel Hill Circle

124 Fern Lane

103 Round Hill Road

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United States Department of the InteriorNational Park Service

NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACESREGISTRATION FORM

This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in How to Complete the NationalRegister of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16A). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by enteringthe information requested. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architecturalclassification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional entries and narrativeitems on continuation sheets (NPS Form 10-900a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer, to complete all items.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________1. Name of property________________________________________________________________________________

historic name ___Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentationother names/site number _Laurel Hill_________________________________________________________________________________________________2. Location_______________________________________________________________________________________

street & number _including a portion of Country Club Road, Laurel Hill Road, and Ledge Lane, and all of Round Hill Road,Pine Lane, Iris Lane, and Fern Lane________ not for publication N/A_

city or town __Chapel Hill__________________________ vicinity N/A_

state __North Carolina________ code _NC county _Orange__ code _135_ zip code _27514___________________________________________________________________________________________________3. State/Federal Agency Certification_________________________________________________________________

As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1986, as amended, I hereby certify that this _X__ nomination____ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of HistoricPlaces and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property

__X__ meets ____ does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant___ nationally ___ statewide _X_ locally. ( ___ See continuation sheet for additional comments.)

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____ entered in the National Register ______________________________________________________________________________ See continuation sheet.

____ determined eligible for the ___________________________________________________________________________National Register

___ See continuation sheet.____ determined not eligible for the ___________________________________________________________________________

National Register____ removed from the National Register ___________________________________________________________________________

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_Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation Orange Co., N.C.Name of Property County and State

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_X_ private ___ building(s) Contributing Noncontributing___ public-local _X_ district __25_____ _9______ buildings___ public-State ___ site ___0_____ _0_______sites___ public-Federal ___ structure ___0_____ _1______structures

___ object ___0_____ _0_______ objects__25____ _10_____Total

Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously(Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing.) listed in the National Register__N/A______ ___34_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________6. Function or Use________________________________________________________________________________

Historic Functions(Enter categories from instructions)

Cat: __Domestic__ ________________ Sub: single dwelling___ _______________Domestic__________________ _multiple dwelling_______________

Current Functions(Enter categories from instructions)

Cat: _Domestic__________________ Sub: __single dwelling ________________Domestic _________________ multiple dwelling____________________________ ____________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________________7. Description_____________________________________________________________________________________Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions)

__Colonial Revival; Modern Movement______International Style ___________________________Other: Ranch__ __________________________

Materials (Enter categories from instructions)

foundation _brick___________________________roof __asphalt____________________________walls _brick_______________________________

_wood________________________other _slate______________________________

_stone_____________________________vinyl______________________________

Narrative Description(Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.)


_________________________________________________________________________________________________8. Statement of Significance_________________________________________________________________________Applicable National Register Criteria(Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the propertyfor National Register listing)

___ A Property is associated with events that havemade a significant contribution to the broad patterns ofour history.

____ B Property is associated with the lives ofpersons significant in our past.

_X__ C Property embodies the distinctivecharacteristics of a type, period, or method ofconstruction or represents the work of a master, orpossesses high artistic values, or represents asignificant and distinguishable entity whose componentslack individual distinction.

____ D Property has yielded, or is likely to yieldinformation important in prehistory or history.

Criteria Considerations(Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.)

____ A owned by a religious institution or used forreligious purposes.

____ B removed from its original location.

____ C a birthplace or a grave.

____ D a cemetery.

____ E a reconstructed building, object,or structure.

____ F a commemorative property.

____ G less than 50 years of age or achievedsignificance within the past 50 years.

Areas of Significance

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__architecture______________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Period of Significance__1937-- 1960_____________________________________________________________

Significant Dates_N/A______________________________________________

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_N/A_____________________________

Cultural Affiliation__N/A___________________________________________________________________________________________

Architect/Builder_Sprinkle, William Van__Webb, James___Matsumoto, George

Carr, George Watts ____

Narrative Statement of Significance(Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.)

_________________________________________________________________________________________________9. Major Bibliographical References__________________________________________________________________Bibliography(Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.)

Previous documentation on file (NPS)___ preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) has been requested.___ previously listed in the National Register___ previously determined eligible by the National Register___ designated a National Historic Landmark___ recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # _____________ recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # __________

Primary Location of Additional Data_X_ State Historic Preservation Office___ Other State agency___ Federal agency___ Local government___ University___ OtherName of repository: ___________________________________


_________________________________________________________________________________________________10. Geographical Data______________________________________________________________________________

Acreage of Property __approx. 20 acres___________________

UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet)

Zone Easting Northing Zone Easting Northing1 17 677060 3975800 3 _17 677450 39746802 17 677280 3975040 4 _17 677260 3974580

_X__ See continuation sheet.

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Boundary Justification(Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.)

_________________________________________________________________________________________________11. Form Prepared By______________________________________________________________________________

name/title__M. Ruth Little__________ _______________________________________________________

organization_Longleaf Historic Resources_____________________ date__July 25, 2007_________ _____

street & number__2312 Bedford Ave. _______ telephone__919.412.7804________________________

city or town____Raleigh_________________________________ state_N.C._ zip code _27607______________________________________________________________________________________________________12. Additional Documentation_______________________________________________________________________Submit the following items with the completed form:

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NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACESCONTINUATION SHEET

Section 7 Page 1Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional DocumentationOrange County, N. C.

Section 7: Description

The Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation extends the periodof significance to 1960 and adds twenty-six houses to the Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District (NR 1989). Theoriginal district consists of Country Club Road, Laurel Hill Road, Laurel Hill Circle and Round Hill Road. Theboundary increase consists of properties on Pine Lane, Fern Lane, Iris Lane, Ledge Lane, Laurel Hill Road,Round Hill Road, and Country Club Road. The added houses were primarily constructed after 1940, the end ofthe period of significance of the original historic district. They represent the important post-World War II phaseof construction within and adjacent to the original subdivision developed by William C. Coker in 1927. Thedistrict additional documentation updates the original nomination by re-evaluating seven noncontributing housesto be contributing because they were constructed during the expanded period of significance, and by changingone contributing house to noncontributing because of substantial alterations and additions that have affected itsarchitectural character.

The expanded historic district is bounded on the north by Raleigh Road (NC 54), on the east and west byproperty owned by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and on the south by S. Fordham Boulevard(US 15-501 Bypass) and by recently constructed houses on St. James Place. The subdivision was called RockyRidge Farm or Rocky Ridge Development on the original subdivision plats of the late 1920s. Because the mainsubdivision road is named Laurel Hill Road, the neighborhood has been called Laurel Hill for many years. Fourof the thirty added houses are post-1960 and are noncontributing. Four sheds are noncontributing; two pools arecounted as noncontributing structures.

Laurel Hill Road contains the oldest and most architecturally distinguished houses in the subdivision. Thesewere listed in the original district. No. 308, 400, 404, 602, 604, 606, 608, and 612 Laurel Hill Road are includedin the boundary increase. The other additions are 302 Country Club Road, at the entrance to the subdivision; 101Ledge Lane (a small street that extends to the east of Country Club Road); 101 and 103 Round Hill Road (a one-block lane intersecting Laurel Hill Road); nine houses on Pine Lane (a one-block road that intersects Laurel HillRoad); four houses on Fern Lane (a two-block street that forms the south end of the subdivision); and fourhouses on Iris Lane (which intersects Fern Lane).

Most of the additional houses are either Colonial Revival-style brick houses, Cape Cod-style houses, Colonial-style Ranches, Contemporary, and Colonial/Contemporary-style houses. The Colonial Revival-style houses aregenerally one-and-one-half-story brick, side-gabled houses with authentic period windows, siding, and entrancetrim. Typical examples are the Boyd House, 313 Country Club Road, 1954, designed by George Watts Carr; theHarland House, 608 Laurel Hill Road, ca. 1945; and the Bond House, 101 Pine Lane, 1937, designed byWilliam Van Sprinkle. The Hickey House, 3 Iris Lane, is a two-story Colonial Revival-style house built in 1960that has the same careful period details as the earlier houses. Typical Cape Cod-style houses, essentially smallerversions of the Colonial Revival, are the Taylor House, 100 Fern Lane, 1954, and the Ellis-Thomas House, 103Pine Lane, 1951.

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The Colonial Ranches have characteristic Ranch house form and period details such as entrances and sashwindows. The 1952 Cadmus House, 7 Iris Lane and the 1955 Taylor House, 106 Fern Lane are typical of these.The Contemporary Ranches and Split-Levels have characteristic forms with contemporary features such asvertical wood siding, low overhanging roofs, and large casement or sliding windows. Five of them weredesigned by the Webb brothers: the Eliason House, 103 Round Hill Road, 1948; Calhoun House, 104 Pine Lane,1951 (Split Level); Thurstone House, 400 Laurel Hill Road, 1952; Darden House, 124 Fern Lane, 1954 (SplitLevel) (attributed); and the Weedon House, 100 Pine Lane, 1957. One house, the Julian House, 101 Ledge Lane,1954, is an International Style design by George Matsumoto.

The Tatum House, 308 Laurel Hill Road, is a Colonial/Contemporary-style probably constructed from mail-order plans, The two-story Colonial Revival-style main block has a one-story split-level living room wing witha modern bowed window, and across the front is a shed porch with louvered screens and built-in stone plantersof contemporary character.

Houses in the boundary increase that are noncontributing because they were built after the end of the period ofsignificance are 4 Iris Lane, a 1963 Split-Level; 604 Laurel Hill Road, an early 1960s Colonial Revival; 606Laurel Hill Road, a Colonial/Contemporary built in 2006; 104 Pine Lane, a Contemporary built in 2007, and101 Round Hill Road, a ca. 1990 brick house.

The boundary increase houses contain a high level of integrity. The most common addition is a side or rear wingor an attached carport or garage. Such additions are generally small in scale in relation to the original mainblock and therefore their visual effect is minimal. For example 100 Fern Lane is a Colonial Revival-stylecottage that has a side garage wing addition that mimics the design of the main block. It is set off from the mainblock by a hyphen.

The seven houses in the original historic district that have become contributing due to age are generally ofColonial Revival or Cape Cod style of brick or frame construction and relatively small in scale. They were builtin the 1940s and 1950s.

Inventory List: Properties are organized alphabetically by street name and numerically by street number.Building dates and historical information were researched by Bob and Josie Stipe through research in the earliestcity directory of 1957 [1957 CD], the next directory of 1959, and through interviews with property owners andlong-time residents. This contribution is indicated by [Stipe Notes]. M. Ruth Little collected some historical dataduring the fieldwork, primarily through interviews. The properties are named for their first owners.

All buildings are categorized as C (contributing) or NC (noncontributing) based on the following criteria. Anybuilding built after the end of the period of significance, 1960, is noncontributing due to its age (NC-age).Buildings built before 1960 that have lost their architectural integrity because of substantial additions and/oralterations incompatible with their original character are categorized as noncontributing because of these changes

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(NC-alt.). Examples of this are complete window, door, and porch replacements; artificial siding that obscures theoriginal door, window, wall and eave detailing; and extensive post-1960 additions. Artificial siding such asaluminum, vinyl, or hardiplank does not automatically render a building noncontributing as long as theapplication of the siding does not obscure the decorative finish of the openings and the eaves.

BOUNDARY INCREASE

Country Club Road, south side302 Country Club Rd.C1950

Dean C. O. Cathy House. Brick 1 ½-story Colonial Revival-style housewith a side-gable roof, projecting gabled wings at each end of the façade,and a center recessed porch with wood columns. Original 8-over-8 woodsash windows and a multi-pane picture window with flanking 6-over-9sash beneath the porch. Recent additions include a shed dormer, a deckwith a pergola, and the conversion of the side porch into a sunroom.Original owner was Dean C. O. Cathy. Dr. H. G. Jones has owned it formany years. [Stipe Notes]

Country Club Road, north side313 Country Club Rd.C1954George Watts Carr, architect

Bernard and Thelma Boyd House. Large 1 ½-story Colonial Revival-style house with wood shake siding, interior chimney, 3 gabled dormerwindows, and 2-over-2 sash windows. Center recessed porch with boxedposts. Façade has two multi-pane picture windows. The house was builtfor Bernard H. Boyd, a UNC religion professor, and his wife Thelma.[Stipe Notes]

Fern Lane, north side100 Fern LaneC1954

Rowe-Green House. 1 ½-story, 5-bay, side-gable Cape Cod-style housewith weatherboard, a center chimney, and a six-panel entrance with widefluted pilasters. The side elevation has some original 8-over-8 woodsash. Alterations include replacement 6-over-9 sash, replacement woodrailing at the front entrance, and a rear shed dormer. The 1-story side-gabled wing on the east side is connected by a hyphen. This may havebeen the original garage that was converted to living space, or may be anaddition. The original occupants were Eleanor R. Rowe and Philip P.Green, Jr. [1957 CD, Stipe Notes]

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106 Fern LaneC1955

James A. Taylor House. Side-gable 6-bay-wide Colonial Ranch withwood shingled walls, center chimney, and a center recessed door. Theliving room has a front bay window with small panes. Remainingwindows are 8-over-8 wood sashes. At the west side is an originalattached garage entered from the side. The original occupant was JamesA. Taylor. The original blueprints are labeled American Home HouseBlueprint House #33, copyright American Home Magazine, 1954. [1957CD, Stipe Notes]NC Pool. Ca. 2000. In-ground swimming pool in rear yard.NC Pool House. Ca. 2000. Shed-roof pool house with wood siding.

110 Fern LaneC1957

Dr. Ernest Wood House. Brick, side-gable, 5-bay Ranch with arecessed 2-bay garage wing on the west side. The center recessed doorhas large flanking sidelights and vertical siding in the recessed area.Windows include 6-over-6 sash and fixed 20-pane windows. To theright of the entrance is a front cross-gable. The first owner was Dr.Ernest Wood, the first radiologist to practice at UNC hospitals. BillDooley, head football coach at UNC, purchased it in 1969 and lived hereuntil 1994. [Stipe Notes]

124 Fern LaneC1954Jim Webb, architect

Thomas H. Darden House. Striking Modernist Split-Level house witha butterfly roof, vertical wood siding, a post-and-beam frame, fixed plateglass windows, large clerestory windows, and a front brick chimney. Theoriginal master bedroom at the left side is set on a higher level than themain living area. Projecting to the front is a carport and coveredwalkway with slender wood posts supporting a flat roof. At the right sideis a recessed addition containing the master bedroom and a sunroom.The original screen porch, located behind the living room, has beenenclosed as a dining room. The earliest known occupant is ThomasDarden. According to oral tradition, Jim Webb designed the house.[1959 CD, Stipe Notes]NC Shed. Ca. 2005. Small shed with vertical siding and flat roof.

Iris Lane, east side4 Iris LaneNC-age1963

DeWalt House. Large Colonial Revival-style Split Level with a one-story section at left and a 2-story section at right. The roofs are side-gabled. The lower level is brick-veneered, the remainder has vinylsiding. The living room contains a large multi-pane picture window.Across the living room section is a shallow porch with wood columns.

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Dr. and Mrs. DeWalt were the owners from 1963 to 2000. [Stipe Notes]NC Shed. Ca. 1980. Front-gabled shed with T-111 siding.

Iris Lane, west side

3 Iris LaneC1960

Jim Hickey House. 2-story side-gable 5-bay Colonial Revival-stylehouse with weatherboard, 8-over-8 wood sash windows, and apedimented entrance porch with paired colonettes set on square bases.The entrance has a 2-pane transom. Other features are a wide boxedcornice and an exterior end chimney. At right is a 1-story garage wingwith a small cupola. The original owner was Jim Hickey, UNC footballcoach, who remained here until 1977. [Stipe Notes]

5 Iris LaneC1957

Charles Henderson House. Large Ranch with stucco walls, a gable-on-hip roof, a center chimney, and a wide front-gabled wing containing agarage, entered from the side. The other section of the wing is a recessedentrance porch with a decorative metal corner post. Windows include 6-over-6 and 8-over-8 wood sash and a bay window. The original occupantwas Charles Henderson. [1957 CD]

7 Iris LaneC1952

Robert T. Cadmus House. Colonial Revival-style 5 bay side-gablebrick Ranch with a recessed door with sidelights and flanking pilastersand 8-over-8 wood sash windows. The living room has a large multi-pane picture window with flanking sashes. A shallow porch with woodlatticed posts extends from the entrance to the left side. At the left end isa sunporch. All trim is covered with vinyl. Robert T. Cadmus, aphysician and first director of UNC Memorial Hospital, was the originalowner. [1957 CD, Stipe Notes]

Laurel Hill Rd.308 Laurel Hill Rd.C1957

Jim and Edna Tatum House. Colonial Revival/Contemporary stylehouse with a 2-story side-gabled main block and a 1-story living roomwing set on a split-level. Board-and-batten covers the lower level; vinylweatherboard the upper level. The living room wing is of stone, with anend chimney of stone and a bowed front window. The entrance withsidelights is sheltered by a recessed porch that extends across the mainblock, with a louvered screen at each end and stone planters. The 2-storyrear wing with garage and screen porch was added in recent years. UNCfootball coach Jim Tatum and his wife Edna had the house built in 1957.

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[Stipe Notes]

400 Laurel Hill Rd.C1952Jim Webb, architect

Louis and Thelma Thurstone House. Contemporary 1-story L-shapehouse with a hipped roof with wide eaves, vertical wood siding, and anentrance with tall transoms and wide sidelights. Other windows arevertical casements with transoms. An original 2-car carport extends fromthe right side and is connected to the house by a screen porch. ArchitectJim Webb designed the house for Louis and Thelma Thurstone, UNCpsychologists. Contractor was Ellington & Sparrow. [Stipe Notes]

404 Laurel Hill Rd.C1950William Van Sprinkle, architect

Ed Cameron House. Colonial Ranch-style house, 4 bays wide, with aside-gable roof, wood shingled walls, a recessed door with smallsidelights, and 2-over-2 wood sash windows. At the left is a front-gablewing with board-and-batten siding. At the left side is an original screenporch. Architect William Van Sprinkle designed the house for UNCmath professor Ed Cameron. Contractor was T. D. Green. [Stipe Notes]

602 Laurel Hill Rd.C1960

Richard Bradford House. Colonial Revival-style 1-story side-gablebrick house with 12-over-12 sash windows, a portico with pairedcolumns, an interior chimney, and a 2-bay wing with a recessed porch onthe south side. Although the house is first listed in the 1962 citydirectory, it may have been built as early as 1957. Richard Bradford wasthe owner/occupant in 1962. [Stipe notes]

604 Laurel Hill Rd.NC-age1963

William Dye House. Colonial Revival-style 1 ½-story gable-and-wingbrick house with an interior chimney, multi-pane windows, and arecessed entrance. William Dye, a UNC botany professor, was theoriginal owner. Later owners were Edwin Tenny, then his daughter Julieand her husband Bill Reppy, a UNC law professor. [Stipe notes]

606 Laurel Hill Rd.NC-ageCa. 2006

House. Colonial Revival/Contemporary-style 1 ½-story brick house witha hip roof, sash windows, and a front shed-roof porch with classicalcolumns. A columned arcade extends sideways to enclose a patio.

608 Laurel Hill Rd.CCa. 1945

J. P. Harland House. Colonial Revival-style 1 ½-story house withwood shingled walls, 6-over-6 sash, and 3 gabled wall dormers.Multipane picture windows flank the center entrance. At left is anoriginal screen porch; at right is an original garage with a metal cupola.The house is set sideways on the lot so that the garage faces the street. J.

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P. Harland, UNC classics professor and famed archaeologist, was theoriginal owner. [Stipe Notes]

610 Laurel Hill Rd. Vacant Lot.

612 Laurel Hill Rd.C1957

Henry Ferguson House. Brick and frame Split-Level house with agarage in the lower level, bedrooms in the upper level, and living roomin the 1-story side brick wing. The upper level has asbestos shingles.Windows are 1-over-1 sashes. A shed porch across the 1-story sectionhas replacement boxed posts and a simple railing. Henry Ferguson wasthe occupant in 1957. [Stipe Notes]

Ledge Lane

101 Ledge LaneC1954George Matsumoto, architect

Milton and Virginia Julian House. Architect George Matsumotodesigned this landmark International Style house for Milton and VirginiaJulian, who operated Milton’s Clothing Cupboard on Franklin Street inChapel Hill. Built on a sloping site, the small house has thequintessential Modernist arrangement of a lower level set into thehillside that supports a cantilevered main story. A concrete block wallencloses the lower level of the rectangular flat-roofed house. Thekitchen, located on the main floor facing Ledge Lane, has continuousglazing in the upper wall. The kitchen wall is sheltered by a shallowrecessed porch. Sliding glass doors open from the rear wall of the lowerlevel into the yard. The upper level has lightweight wooden panels andwindows, some fixed and some casement-type, with a screened porchcantilevered out from the rear wall. A concrete block retaining wallencloses the parking area at the side. Construction was delayed by alawsuit brought by owners of the surrounding lots, who opposed thehouse because they believed that its modern design was out of characterwith existing houses. The lawsuit went to the North Carolina SupremeCourt, where the design covenants were held unenforcible. [StipeNotes].

Pine Lane, north side

100 Pine LaneC1957Jim Webb, architect

Fred and Josephine Weedon House. Contemporary Ranch built on aslope, with an exposed basement at the rear, with wood shingle siding,sliding windows, an interior concrete block chimney, and a recessedentrance with an adjacent jalousie window. A deck and rear bedroom

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balcony was added in 1981. It was built as a retirement home for Fredand Josephine Weedon. Jim Webb was the architect; Ellington &Sparrow was the contractor. The Weedons’ daughter, Josie Stipe and herhusband Bob Stipe have lived here for many years. [Stipe Notes]

102 Pine LaneC1938

Urban T. Holmes House. Colonial Revival-style painted brick housewith a deck-on-hip roof, a recessed entrance, 6-over-6 wood sash withpaneled aprons and arched lintels, and a 1-story side wing with an endchimney. Across the front are 3 shed dormers. The sloped site allows fora basement level garage in the right side. Original owner was Urban T.Homes, a UNC classics professor. [Stipe Notes]

104 Pine LaneNC-age2007

House. Contemporary transitional-style frame house with hipped roofs,a front porch, and a front garage wing.

108 Pine LaneC1957-1958

William and Kathryn McKnight House. Raised brick Ranch withside-gable roof that faces away from the street. The simply-finishedhouse has a door with a single large sidelight, a recessed entrance porchwith a decorative metal post, 1-over-1 metal sash windows, and a sidescreen porch elevated on high posts. William A. and Kathryn McKnightwere the original owners. Kathryn was still in residence in 2006. [Stipenotes]

Pine Lane, south side

101 Pine LaneC1937William Van Sprinkle, architect

Richmond and Marjorie Bond House. Brick Colonial Revival-stylehouse with five parts: a center 1 1/2-story side-gabled main block, ahyphen and a side-gabled 1-story wing to the right, and a 1-story side-gabled wing and a low gabled garage wing to the left. The main entrancehas a small transom and a dentiled lintel. The upper façade has 4-panecasements set in flush siding. A dentilled brick string course separatesthe first story from the upper level of the main block. The woodwindows have 12-over-12, 8-over-8, and 6-over-6 pane sashes. In thegarage wing are wall dormers. It was built for Richmond and MarjorieBond. William Van Sprinkle was the architect; Ellington & Sparrow wasthe contractor. [Stipe Notes]

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103 Pine LaneC1951

Ellis-Thomas House. Cape Cod-style 1 ½-story side-gabled brick housewith an end chimney, 8-over-8 wood sash windows, 3 gabled 6-over-6dormers, a screen porch on the right side, and a gabled garage wing atthe left, connected by a screened hyphen. Gordon Ellis of the UNCeducation department was the original owner. Henry and Mary Thomasacquired the house shortly after construction. Henry was a UNCchemistry professor; Mary was a librarian at UNC Medical School.[Stipe Notes]

105 Pine LaneC1955

Joe and Peggy Galloway House. Contemporary style side-gabled brickRanch on a daylight basement. The door has a large single sidelight andis set in a recessed corner porch with a boxed post. Wood casementwindows are set in bands. The 2-car carport of contemporary designattached to the front is an addition. Original owners were Joe and PeggyGalloway. He was director of placement at the UNC School of Business;she was a public school teacher. [Stipe Notes]

107 Pine LaneC1960

Gordon and Martha Cleveland House. Colonial Revival-style 1 ½-story side-gabled house with a side-hall plan, a 6-panel entrance withsidelights set in a pilastered surround, and 8-over-12 and 6-over-9 sashwindows. The walls have wood shakes. At left is a lower 1 ½-story wingwith board-and-batten siding and a gabled 6-over-6 dormer. The slopingsite allows for a full basement. Gordon Cleveland, a UNC politicalscience professor, designed the house for himself and his wife.Contractors Ellington & Sparrow built it. [Stipe notes]

109 Pine LaneC1959

Hugh and Verna Holman House. Cape Cod-style 1 ½-story side-gabled house with a recessed entrance, 8-over-12 and 6-over-6 sashwindows, 2 dormer windows, and a small left side gabled wing.Replacement hardi-plank siding. The house was built for Hugh Holman,a UNC English professor and his wife Verna. [Stipe notes]NC Shed. Ca. 2002. Side-gabled shed with hardi-plank siding.

Round Hill Road, south side

101 Round Hill RoadNC-ageCa. 1990

House. Side-gabled brick 1 ½-story house with a recessed door, verticalcasement windows, and roof skylights.

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103 Round Hill Road1948, 1980CJim Webb, architect

Norman Eliason House. Contemporary Ranch with side-gable roof,vertical wood siding, metal vertical casement windows, a rear chimney,and a large rear patio. The house was built for UNC professor NormanEliason and his wife by architect Jim Webb. An early addition was theenclosure of the original screen porch at the right as a dining room andthe addition in front of a carport designed by Webb. At the left end is a2-bedroom addition made about 1980. The house faces to the rear, witha deck overlooking the rear yard. It has been owned by Mary PenniallDale for many years. [Stipe Notes]

Additional Documentation

Houses that have becomenoncontributing due toalterations:HD property # in ( )

116 Laurel Hill Rd. (#8)NC-alt.Ca. 1929, ca. 1990

Cornelia Spencer Love House. Hip-roofed 1-story cottage that wasremodeled and enlarged about 1990. Little original exterior fabricremains. The interior chimney, entrance with sidelights, and a hippeddormer window are original. The original wall shingles have beenreplaced with wood siding. At the right is a large 2-story wing of moderndesign, with large areas of glass and a metal balcony. The house wasconstructed for Cornelia Spencer Love, a librarian and granddaughter ofChapel Hill civic leader Cornelia Phillips Spencer.

Houses that have becomecontributing due to age

3 Buttons Rd. (#30)C1960William Van Sprinkle, architect

Charles and Kay Bream House. Contemporary 6-bay long Ranch witha hipped and gabled roof designed by William Van Sprinkle for CharlesBream, UNC radiology professor, and his wife Kay. Siding consists ofvertical wood and brick; windows are the sliding type. A recessed porchwith thin metal posts extends along most of the façade to a 2-car carportset on the diagonal. [Stipe Notes]

102 Laurel Hill Rd. (#3)CCa. 1946

House. Small 1-story brick side-gable house with an interior chimney, acenter entrance with transom and sidelights, and paired sash windowsflanking the entrance. To the rear is a frame wing. Although traditional

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in form, the large transom and sidelights have a contemporary character.The 1-over-1 sash windows are probably replacements. The house wasbuilt prior to 1950 by Dudley D. Carroll, Dean of the UNC School ofBusiness, for an in-law. It was later owned by UNC English professorBlyden Jackson. [Stipe Notes]

104 Laurel Hill Rd. (#4)Early 1950sC

Frances V. Newcome House. Brick, side-gable 1 ½-story Cape Cod-style house with an entrance with fluted pilasters, 8-over-8 and 6-over-6wood sash windows, and three gabled dormers. Exterior end chimney.At the left is a 1 ½-story frame wing with a shed dormer connected by asmall hyphen. This is probably an addition. Mrs. Frances V. Newcomewas the owner in the 1957 city directory. [Stipe Notes]


Victor A. Greulach House. 2-story side-gabled Colonial Revival-stylehouse, four bays wide, with an end chimney and 8-over-8 wood sashwindows. The first story has board-and-batten siding; the upper story,which overhangs slightly, has weatherboard. Beneath the shed porchwith boxed posts is an entrance with sidelights. At left is a 1-story wingwith an end chimney. Victor A. Greulach was the owner in 1957. [StipeNotes]


Hughes Bryan House. Cape Cod-style 1 ½-story side-gable house with2 gabled 6-over-6 sash dormers, a center chimney, flush siding, and 6-over-9 sash windows. Across the rear roof is a shed dormer. At left is arecessed 2-bay wing. Hughes Bryan was the owner in 1957. [StipeNotes]


Waverly Branch House. Colonial Williamsburg-style 1 ½-story side-gable house, 5 bays wide, with beaded siding, a slate roof, end chimneys,and 6-over-6 sash windows. The entrance, with a transom, has apedimented entrance porch with paired box posts. Other features are amodillion cornice and 3 gabled dormer windows. The house hasflanking 1-story wings. The right wing, apparently a porch, is nowenclosed with modern windows. In 1957 Waverly Branch, who wasprominent in UNC affairs, owned the house. His wife was thechancellor’s secretary for many years.

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House integrity and constructiondate re-evaluated, also addresscorrected

307 Country Club Road (313 inoriginal HD-#25)CCa. 1935, ca. 1965

Robert Voitle House. Colonial Revival-style 1 ½-story cottage with anexterior end chimney, a corner recessed porch, weatherboard, and six-over-six and 4-over-4 wood sash windows. Other features are twogabled dormer windows and an original attached garage on the left side.It was built for Robert B. Voitle. In the mid-1960s architect ArthurCogswell added a low flat-roof modern art studio to the rear. Theaddition has vertical wood siding and large fixed glass windows. [Note:It was mistakenly dated 1955 and therefore classified noncontributing.]

Houses constructed within originaldistrict boundary

1 Iris Lane.NC-age1988

Joe Ferrell and Joe Fama House. 2-story side-gabledcontemporary/colonial-style house with weatherboarded walls, a centergabled wing with open porch on the first floor sheltering the entrance,and large windows.NC Garage/Apartment. 1988. 1 ½-story side-gabled 2-car garage withupper apartment in same style as house.NC structure Swimming Pool. Ca. 1988. In-ground swimming pool.

102 Round Hill RoadNC-ageCa. 2000

Duplex. 2-story hipped-roof house with a center chimney, stainedweatherboard, vertical sliding windows, and a large deck at the left side.The first story is one apartment; the second story is another. This is builton the rear parcel of 116 Laurel Hill Road in the original district.

209 Laurel Hill RoadNC-age1997

Eusonia. 1-story Contemporary brick and weatherboarded house withwide carport wing set at right angles to the main block. The name carvedon a boulder, “Eusonia,” apparently refers to the design inspiration fromFrank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian houses of the 1930s. The house stands onthe rear section of the lot originally belonging to 306 Laurel Hill Road.

Update of Current StreetAddressesAddress in Original Nomination Current Address1 Ridge Rd. (#1) 3 Ridge Rd.

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2 Ridge Rd. (#2) 5 Ridge Rd.

210 Laurel Hill Rd. (#10) 300 Laurel Hill Rd.

212 Laurel Hill Rd. (#11) 304 Laurel Hill Rd.

313 Country Club Hill Rd. (#23) 307 Country Club Rd.

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Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional DocumentationOrange County, N. C.

Section 8: Statement of Significance

The Boundary Increase to the Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District incorporates the intact post-World War IIdevelopment phase of the subdivision into the district boundaries. This phase consists of twenty-five housesbuilt from 1937 to 1960 along Laurel Hill Road, the spine of the district, and the small lanes that branch off ofit, and five houses built afterward. The historic 1927 Rocky Ridge Farm development is the only pre-World WarII suburb in Chapel Hill that was planned along the City Beautiful principles of road design that conform to thecontours of the land. Developer William Chambers Coker, a botany professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, and T. FelixHickerson, an engineering professor who was a national figure in road design, created the subdivision plan in1927. Thirty-four houses were built from 1928 to 1940 in Colonial Revival and English Tudor styles. A numberwere designed by local architects George Watts Carr, Hackney and Knott, and William Van Sprinkle. The addedresidences consist of a mixture of small and medium-sized Colonial Revival-style houses, a group of fourContemporary houses designed by the Webb architectural firm of Chapel Hill, a dramatic International Stylehouse designed by North Carolina State College architect George Matsumoto, and a group of representativeRanch houses of Colonial character. The Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District Boundary Increase meets NationalRegister Criterion C for its local architectural significance.

The period of significance for the boundary increase begins in 1937 with the oldest building in the boundaryincrease, the Bond House at 101 Pine Lane, and continues to 1960 when historic development of theneighborhood was completed. The historic buildings in the boundary increase generally retain their architecturalintegrity, including original wall materials, windows, and front entrances.

This nomination expands the period of significance for the original historic district to 1960 to recognize theproperties that have achieved contributing status since 1989. The nomination amends the original nomination byre-evaluating seven houses from noncontributing to contributing status because they were built during theexpanded period of significance, or, in the case of 307 Country Club Road, the original nomination dated theproperty incorrectly. One house is amended to noncontributing status because of major alterations. Several streetaddresses in the original nomination are also corrected.

Historical Background:

Note that the following discussion uses the common name of the subdivision, Laurel Hill, instead of the name ofRocky Ridge Farm that was utilized in the 1989 nomination. The nomination for the Rocky Ridge Farm HistoricDistrict ended the period of significance at 1940 in order to include the initial spurt of construction from 1928 to1930 and the late 1930s construction that followed the building hiatus of the Depression. The thirty-two houses inthe district included an assortment of large and small Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and vernacular cottageresidences. Building activity was again interrupted in the subdivision during the 1941-1945 years of World WarII. Three new houses constructed within the original historic district--209 Laurel Hill Road, 102 Round Hill Road,

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and 1 Iris Lane—are documented.

The decade or so following the war was a period of intense development in Laurel Hill as throughout Chapel Hill.The University of North Carolina expanded during the postwar era to meet the demand for higher education.Many new faculty were hired; North Carolina Memorial Hospital opened in 1950, and medical personnel movedto town to teach and work in the hospital and the School of Medicine, newly expanded from two years to fouryears. The newcomers needed places to live, and architects moved to town to supply their needs. By 1950 most ofthe level plateau of Chapel Hill village had been built up. The hilly farmland around the village was beingsubdivided to meet the demand for new houses. 1

Laurel Hill was expanded into adjacent property in the W. C. Coker Estate after his death in 1953. The originalsuburb consisted primarily of lots 1-16 of the Rocky Ridge Development, plat map dated June 1927, and lots 1-14of the Buttons Development on Rocky Ridge Farm, plat map dated July 1927. These plats consist of Ridge Road,Country Club Road, Laurel Hill Road and Buttons Road. The boundary increase consists of three additionalstreets: Pine Lane, Iris Lane, and Fern Lane, and one house on Ledge Lane. Pine Lane was part of the originalplat, indicated by the fact that 101 and 102 Pine Lane were constructed in the late 1930s. Laurel Hill Roadterminated at the south edge of 603 Laurel Hill Road on the 1927 plat. It was extended to the south to connectwith the 15-501 Bypass about 1945. Iris Lane and Fern Lane were platted in 1954 (Orange County Plat 5, page30).

The neighborhood remains a very desirable residential area due to its proximity to the university campus and tothe great beauty of its large lots and heavily wooded terrain. The Laurel Hill Neighborhood Association seeks toexpand the boundaries of the National Register Historic District to include the post World War II development inorder to stabilize the area’s historic identity.

Architectural Context

The original district met National Register Criteria C for the significance of its architecture and Criterion A for itsCommunity Planning and Development significance as Chapel Hill’s first planned picturesque suburb. Theboundary increase meets Criterion C for its locally significant residential architecture. The houses in the boundaryincrease are a significant collection of late 1930s Colonial Revival and late 1940s and 1950s Modernist houses. Itdoes not have the same community planning and development significance as the original district area because itwas not planned by the developer/engineer team of William C. Coker and T. Felix Hickerson. Architecturally theincrease contains houses constructed primarily from 1937 to 1960.

The finest of the Colonial Revival-style houses is the earliest, the 1937 Bond House at 101 Pine Lane, designedby local architect William Van Sprinkle. It reflects the dominant character of the 1930s residences in the original

1M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, North Carolina 1795-1975, 81.

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Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District. The five-part brick house has a one-and-one-half-story main block flankedby lower wings connected by hyphens. The diminuitive upper story, which has wood sheathing with two pairs offour-pane casement windows, is characteristic of Sprinkle’s smaller Colonial Revival houses, such as the EdkinsHouse, 739 Gimghoul Road, in the Gimghoul neighborhood of Chapel Hill (although the brick continues into theupper story and the windows are shorter sash windows). The first postwar house to be built in Laurel Hill was theColonial Revival cottage of J. P. Harland, a classics professor, at 608 Laurel Hill Road about 1945. The smallgarage wing on the side of the handsome traditional house acknowledges the importance of the automobile in thissuburban location. Prior to World War II, garages in Laurel Hill were located at the end of the driveway.

In 1948 Jim Webb, a city planner and architect moved to Chapel Hill in 1947 to help found the new planningschool. Webb and his brother John Webb, who worked with him in Chapel Hill in the early years, had studiedwith architecture professor William Wurster at the University of California at Berkeley, then worked inWurster’s San Francisco office. Wurster created the so-called “Bay Area Style,” an informal modern style ofCalifornia Ranch that adapted to hilly sites by means of raised basements, with porches, patios, balconies andcarports extending the living space out into nature. His post and beam frameworks eliminated the need for load-bearing interior retaining walls and ceilings, thus interiors had flowing spaces and cathedral ceilings. Exteriorwalls had vertical wood siding and large windows that opened to the rear vista rather than on the street side. TheWebb houses that went up in Chapel Hill in the postwar years were truly suburban designs that celebrated theprecipitous thickly forested piedmont terrain and differed profoundly from the familiar Colonial Revival housesthat populated the town. Significant clusters of Webb houses were built in two nearby developments of the1950s: Whitehead Circle, located near UNC Hospital, and Highland Woods, a cooperative universitycommunity located across the 15-501 Bypass from Laurel Hill. As in Laurel Hill, each house is customized toits site. Some have low gabled roofs set parallel to the street, others have their gable ends facing the street, butall follow the principle of a private street façade and a rear façade that opens up to the woods.2

One of Jim Webb’s first Chapel Hill houses was designed in 1948 for English professor Norman Eliason and hiswife at 103 Round Hill Road in Laurel Hill. The lot, at the end of a cul-de-sac, slopes toward the rear. Thesurviving blueprints are signed by Lawrence Enersen, the architect with whom Webb apprenticed while earninghis North Carolina architectural license. The modest Contemporary side-gabled Ranch house has sleek lines,with small windows across the front and larger areas of glass along the rear wall of the living room overlookingthe woods. Although the blueprint shows a carport attached to the front, this was not built. A short time later theowners enclosed the original side screen porch as a dining room and added a carport in front of the dining room.The interior features cathedral ceilings with exposed roof rafters and continuous wood sheathed walls. JimWebb and his firm designed at least three other Contemporary-style Ranches and Split-Level houses in LaurelHill in the 1950s. These are the Thurstone House, 400 Laurel Hill Road (1952), Darden House at 124 Fern Lane(1954), and Weedon House, 100 Pine Lane (1957).

2See discussion of the development of Highland Woods in The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 266-269. This is taken

from Van Wyck et al., “The Saga of Highland Woods” and from various conversations with Bob Stipe in 2004-2005.

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The Thurstone House of 1952 was regarded as one of the firm’s best by Jim Webb. The low house L-shapedhouse designed for the Thurstones, who were psychologists affiliated with the university, has vertical woodsiding, a hipped roof, and an original carport connected by a screen porch. Copious glass around the entranceand large casement windows with transoms light the interior. The Weedon House is a Ranch with an open floorplan. The Darden House is a dramatic Split-Level with a butterfly roof that creates high interior spaces. Thehouse is not firmly documented as the work of the Webbs; the attribution is based on oral tradition.

These Webb houses, so startlingly different from the traditional prewar houses decorated with forms taken fromcolonial American and medieval English architecture, apparently did not attract unwanted attention in LaurelHill. But in 1955, when Chapel Hill clothing merchant Milton Julian started construction of a smallInternational Style house on his steeply sloping lot at 101 Ledge Lane at the edge of Laurel Hill, the neighborsfiled suit in court to block him. They felt that the design, by N. C. State College School of Design professorGeorge Matsumoto, was out of place. Until developer Professor Coker’s death in 1953, he or his wife hadpersonally approved all house plans prior to construction and apparently required new home builders to consultwith the university architects, Atwood and Nash.3 Coker naturally favored the popular revival styles of theperiod. This design review process ceased after his death. The neighbors argued that the design was not incharacter with surrounding houses and attempted to use the deed restrictions in the subdivision governingaesthetic harmony to prevent Julian from building his home. They sued all the way to the North CarolinaSupreme Court, which held that the design covenants were personal to Coker, and that they were unenforceablesince his death.4 Matsumoto was a native Californian who worked in Kansas and Chicago before coming toNorth Carolina to help establish the new School of Design in 1948. So the Julian House went up. TheInternational Style rectangular flat-roofed house consists of a concrete block basement supporting a cantileveredmain level, with Asian style wood panels and a recessed entrance and a screen porch extending across the rear,overlooking the woods. Matsumoto’s own 1954 house and studio (NR-1994) at 821 Runnymede Road inRaleigh is a similar rectangular flat-roofed Asian-inspired design. The ground level housed his studio.

Most houses built in Laurel Hill during the 1950s were of conventional design. The Ranch, a long house thathugged the ground and often had an integral carport or garage, was the most popular style. Math professor EdCameron built a Ranch at 404 Laurel Hill Road that was designed by architect William Van Sprinkle, whofavored the Colonial Revival style. Sprinkle used colonial features to define the Cameron House. Dr. Cadmus,first director of UNC Hospital, had a colonial Ranch built for himself at 7 Iris Lane in 1952. Architect GeorgeWatts Carr, a life-long champion of the Colonial Revival style, designed a Cape Cod-style house for religionprofessor Bernard Boyd at 313 Country Club Road in 1954. An interesting Colonial Ranch is the Taylor House,106 Fern Lane, built in 1955 from blueprints ordered from the American Home Magazine. The originalblueprints have remained with the house. The design is a rustic shingled Ranch with a bay window with smallpanes of glass lighting the living room and an attached garage at the end. Joe Galloway of the School of

3The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 66.

4Ibid., 88.

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Business had a contemporary Ranch built for himself at 105 Pine Lane in 1955. In 1957 Dr. Ernest Wood, thefirst radiologist at UNC Hospital, had a brick Ranch constructed for himself at 110 Fern Lane. Of course thetraditional Colonial Revival-style house continued to be built in Laurel Hill throughout the 1950s and into the1960s. Waverly Branch and his wife, long-time secretary to the Chancellor, built a house evoking the design ofcolonial houses in Williamsburg, Virginia at 503 Laurel Hill Road in 1957. An interesting combination of theColonial Revival and the Contemporary appears in the house at 308 Laurel Hill Road built for legendaryfootball coach Jim Tatum in 1957. Probably constructed from mail-order plans, the main two-story block hasproper colonial features, but the living room wing rises up a level to the side, with a modern bowed window,and across the front is a shed porch with louvered screens and built-in stone planters.5

During the 1960s, most of the remaining lots in the boundary increase were filled primarily with conventionalColonial Revival-style houses. A few architect-designed homes have been constructed in recent decades.

5The historical information is taken from Bob and Josie Stipe’s “Building Notes.”

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Section 9: Bibliography

Chapel Hill City Directory, 1957, 1959. North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill.

Little, M. Ruth. The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, North Carolina 1795-1975. The PreservationSociety of Chapel Hill, 2006.

Stipe, Robert E. and Josie W. “Notes on Buildings in Laurel Hill/Rocky Ridge National Register HistoricDistrict,” 2005. Historical data on each house in the addendum area collected from property owners andneighborhood residents. Copy in nomination file.

Reeb, Mary. Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District National Register Nomination, North Carolina HistoricPreservation Office, 1989.

Rodewald, Evan, Committee to Expand the Rocky Ridge Historic District, Laurel Hill NeighborhoodAssociation. Email correspondence to M. Ruth Little, 2005-2006.

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Section 10: Boundaries

Verbal Boundary Description:

The addendum boundaries are shown on the attached district map, adapted from the Orange County GIS map. Itis drawn at a scale of 1 inch = 200 feet.

Boundary Justification:

Boundaries are drawn to include the streets of the Laurel Hill subdivision that were excluded from the originaldistrict nomination due to their age. Houses that are less than fifty years old, or pre-1960 houses located at theedges that have lost integrity due to extensive exterior alterations are excluded from the boundary.

Additional UTM References

5 17 677040 3974750

6 17 676940 3975000

7 17 676750 3975260

8 17 676750/3975700

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Section Photos Page 21Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional DocumentationOrange County, N. C.

Photographs:

Unless otherwise identified, all photographs were made by Robert E. Stipe in 2005.

1 101 Ledge Lane, view from east. Photo by Bill Garrett, 2006.

2. 101 Pine Lane, view from north.

3. 103 Round Hill Road, view from north.

4. 107 Pine Lane, view from northwest.

5. 302 Country Club Road, view from north.

6. 400 Laurel Hill Road, view from northwest.

7. 124 Fern Lane, view from south. Photo by Ruth Little, 2006.

8. 5 Iris Lane, view from east.

9. 503 Laurel Hill Circle, view from east. (Has become contributing due to age). Photo by Ruth Little, 2006.

10. 3 Buttons Road, view from southeast. (Has become contributing due to age) Photo by Ruth Little, 2006.

11 604 Laurel Hill Road, view from east (noncontributing)

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